Sorastar

Sorastar (ソ ラ ス タ ー) is a planet that part of the empire DGTO, although Entertainment is tolerated. It is a planet with a very warm atmosphere known for its advanced technology. It is Sengawa Kagome's home planet.

Description
This planet is known for its pleasant tropical climate and its technology is more advanced than most planets. Sorastar is assumed to be a arid planet due to the lack of rain. It is also one of the most touristic planets in the galaxy. It has a size and mass comparable to those of the Earth.

For tourism, Sorastar has the both beaches and various water parks (or more generally water-related activities). The royal palace, entirely made of amber, has been preserved and renovated for tourism, as are other historic sites as well as extremely valuable ancient jewels exhibits in museums, which were built at the time when the planet's diet was a Absolute Monarchy.

Indeed, a little over 100 years ago, Sorastar was a planet ruled by a King exercising full powers. Technology was very little developed compared to other planets in the galaxy. However, the planet has experienced a real economic explosion thanks to the discovery of an substancial energy (similar to Dualium) unknown until now that has allowed the creation of new high-tech materials.

Thanks to that, many famous companies started coming to Sorastar to buy this energy to create revolutionary objects. This is how the planet grew quickly in a century.

As the planet modernized, the royal family lost more and more power. For fear of losing all its influence, she negotiated with the people the idea of setting up a constitutional monarchy. Even if the population has accepted this proposal, today the royal family is not really taken seriously and is rarely consulted when making political decisions.

In short, the benefits mentioned above make Sorastar very rich, but this is just the tip of the Iceberg.

In reality, there is a big bridge between the wealthy people and the poor people. The upscale neighborhoods are often close to the poor and dangerous neighborhoods where mafias and gangs of all kinds reign supreme. These gangs are constantly fighting each other, to decide who will be at the top of the hierarchy. On this side, Sorastar is not so different from Tekistar.

Money means everything on this planet. It is a planet whose system is extremely capitalist, where social assistance is practically non-existent.

The government and justice are somewhat corrupted (hypocritical speeches, regularly tampered elections), but it's not as if the population cares. Sorastar's inhabitants generally have very little interest in the politics and problems of Sorastar, too interested in their own business.

Before being considered as human being, the inhabitants are separated into two distinct categories "rich" or "poor". This means that each individual is above all defined by his wealth. Essentially, the planet works exactly as its slogan says: "You reap what you have sown." If you've made a fortune, good for you, but if you're poor, you can only blame yourself.

Despite Sorastar is "under" the the Entertainment Ban law, the general opinion of the population about Entertainment is rather neutral. Officially, the planet is a member state of the Deep Galaxy Trade Organization in a "partial" way, but unofficially, in most cases, the government is quite lenient towards the Entertainment because it brings back a lot of money, provided that the fans are discreet. Just beware of the visit of the DGTO soldiers that takes place at least once a month.

Sorastar is a planet whose government is very opportunistic, and does not hesitate to make commercial contracts with planets that part to the AEPS, but since Sorastar is a planet very interesting economically, the DGTO generally tolerates these misdemeanour.

Geographically, there are three "parts" in Sorastar that have been established by the government. The first part of Sorastar is occupied by humans, and concentrates the economic, political and tourist places, as well as the dangerous neighborhoods where the police generally act little. It was decided by the government that the lawlessness zone should be separated from the "safe" area. This is how a huge reinforced concrete barrier was built. An electric sign on this barrier indicates that on the other side, the constitutional laws are no longer applied and that crossing it is at its own risk and peril. It was mainly erected to warn tourists because any inhabitant of the planet knows the chaos that reigns beyond this barrier.

The "second part" of the planet is mainly covered by the sea. It also separates the other two parts.

The third part of the planet, which is also the largest, is mostly inhabited by humans, because the average temperature is extremely high. The other reason why there is little human presence there is that there are huge volcanoes still active. It is mostly covered with vast reddish mountainous desert regions where nature, and some indigenous tribes thrive. Wildlife is mostly composed of heat-resistant animals (such as salamanders, scorpions and jackals), the same applies to flora.

Almost all Sorastar natives have tanned skin and are accustomed to heat because of the climate.

The three official languages of Sorastar are Japanese, Indian and English. There are as many people who speak Japanese as Indian, and English is mainly spoken for international trade.